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it’s really sad that we average out at around 100 years currently at least. there is so much more we can understand the world around us, so much more we can dis

• cout 5y ago
  This is why it is important that we all learn to be both learners and teachers. We can learn so much about the world, but what we fill our minds with is lost when the mind is gone. What we teach to others lives on.
• steelframe 5y ago
  > it’s really sad that we average out at around 100 years currently at least. If we lived to 200, no doubt many would be saying how sad it is that we average out to around 200 years. To me, that we have what we have against all odds is anything but sad. I take Richard Dawkins' view on this. "We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia."